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Monday, May 4, 2015

CROP POLLINATORS FACING EXTINCTION? ARE THE 'BIG 6' KILLING THEM?

More than 2 out of 5 American honeybee colonies died in the past year — and, surprisingly, for the first time ever noted, the worst die-off was in the summer.

Since April 2014, beekeepers have lost 42.1 percent of their colonies, the second-highest loss rate in nine years, according to an annual survey conducted by a bee partnership that includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture.]

SOMETHING THAT MAY NOT OCCUR TO THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH FARMING IS THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR POLLINATORS OF OUR FOOD CROPS.
THE WIND CANNOT POLLINATE ALL PLANTS.

WE NEED BEES, BUTTERFLIES, OTHER INSECTS, EVEN BATS TO CARRY POLLEN FROM PLANT TO PLANT IF WE WANT FOOD.

THE MAJOR FOODS RAISED AND HARVESTED FOR THE HUMAN DIET DEPENDS ON WINGED POLLINATORS.

WHILE BATS POLLINATE MAINLY FRUIT-BEARING PLANTS, THEY ALSO CONSUME TONS OF INSECTS THAT DAMAGE CROPS EACH YEAR.

THE PROBLEM IS, ALL THESE POLLINATORS ARE DYING BY THE MILLIONS.

ALL OVER THE PLANET, PEOPLE ARE CALLING FOR THESE ENDANGERED SPECIES TO BE SEEN AS SUCH AND PROTECTED.

THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE ESTIMATED IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR THAT 90% OF ALL MONARCH BUTTERFLIES HAVE DIED... 90%!

REUTERS REPORTED THE GRUESOME STATISTICS ON HONEYBEE DEATHS IN THE U.S. AS :
~21.9% OF ALL COLONIES DIED FROM 2011- 2012
~ OF THE SURVIVING COLONIES, 30% DIED IN 2012-2013
~ OF THE SURVIVING COLONIES FROM 2013, 23.2% OF ALL COLONIES DIED.2014-2015 STATISTICS ON THE COLONIES WON'T BE OUT UNTIL SOMETIMES IN MAY.Over the past few years, bee populations have been dying at a rate the U.S. government says is economically unsustainable. IT'S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD. COLONY COLLAPSE.Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, and were known by various names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease), the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006 after a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of western honeybee colonies in North America. European beekeepers observed similar phenomena in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland (who lost half of all its colonies over the winter of 2012) and Germany have all reported varying losses The Northern Ireland Assembly received reports of a decline greater than 50%, the greatest decline of all. Scotland also reported large losses, in some areas up to 80% of bee colonies died, but those were isolated cases.SUCH WORLDWIDE LOSSES RAISED THE ALARM ACROSS THE GLOBE.

With so many reports focusing on neonicotinoids as cause of colony death, a formal peer review by the European Food Safety Authority was called for, which stated in January 2013 that some neonicotinoids pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, and identified several data gaps not previously considered. Their review concluded, "A high acute risk to honey bees was identified from exposure via dust drift for the seed treatment uses in maize, oilseed rape and cereals. A high acute risk was also identified from exposure via residues in nectar and/or pollen." Dave Goulson, an author of one of the studies which prompted the EFSA review, has suggested that industry science pertaining to neonicotinoids may have been deliberately deceptive, and the UK Parliament has asked manufacturer Bayer Cropscience to explain discrepancies in evidence they have submitted to an investigation.

DELIBERATELY DECEPTIVE?

AGAIN?

SEVERAL STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT SPECIFIC PESTICIDES ARE THE CAUSE.ANOTHER STUDY ALSO LINKED COLLAPSE OF BEE COLONIES TO HERBICIDES.Monsanto Co, DuPont, Syngenta AG, Bayer AG and other agrochemical companies, all connected to manufacture and/or use of pesticides and herbicides, say the bees are being killed by other factors, such as mites. "With the damning evidence mounting, pesticide companies can no longer spin their way out of this crisis," said Michele Simon, a public health lawyer who specializes in food issues.

Bayer and Syngenta make the pesticides in question, while Monsanto and DuPont have used them as coatings for the seed they sell."

WHAT THE AGROCHEMICAL GANG DIDN'T MENTION WAS THAT PESTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES MAKE BEES SUSCEPTIBLE TO THESE MITES!

The parasite has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder though scientists took pains to point out that their findings do not directly link the pesticides to CCD. The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight ag chemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite."

EVERYTHING ABOUT PESTICIDES IS KILLING BEES!IF PESTICIDES DON'T KILL THEM ON CONTACT, IT MAKES THEM VULNERABLETO THE VERY "MITES" THE PESTICIDE MAKERS WANT TO BLAME FOR BEE DEATHS!

THE SAME THING IS HAPPENING TO MONARCH BUTTERFLIES.Roundup Ready, introduced in the 1970s, is widely blamed for decimating the Monarch caterpillars’ only source of food , the common milkweed plant. Andrew Kimbrell, executive director for the Center for Food Safety, announced that his organization has released a report describing the effects of herbicide-resistant crops on monarch butterflies in North America. The Center for Biological Diversity and other concerned organizations are demanding that the Monarch butterfly be placed on the endangered species list.
I AND SEVERAL NEIGHBORS NOTICED TWO YEARS AGO HOW MANY MONARCH CHRYSALISES WERE ATTACHED TO THE FEW MILKWEEDS WE HAD GROWING.WE COUNTED 83 CHRYSALISES ON JUST 14 PLANTS.OBVIOUSLY, GIVEN THAT PRIOR TO THIS WE FELT FORTUNATE TO SEE A DOZEN IN ANY GIVEN YEAR, THE SEARCH FOR MILKWEED PLANTS WAS NOT GOING WELL FOR MIGRATING MONARCHS THAT CAME THROUGH OUR AREA, WHICH HAS LONG BEEN A MAJOR CORRIDOR OF MONARCH MIGRATION.MONARCH WATCHERS HAD ALSO REPORTED MUCH LOWER NUMBERS OF THE BUTTERFLIES EVEN BACK THEN.NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE EFFECT PESTICIDES HAVE ON BUTTERFLIES, ON ALL INSECTS, BIRDS, ALL LIFE THAT COMES IN CONTACT WITH THEM.ISN'T IT LOGICAL TO ASSUME THAT WHAT WILL KILL A "PEST", THAT KILLS BEES, WILL ALSO KILL A FRAGILE BUTTERFLY? FOR THE MONARCHS, IT'S SORT OF A "DOUBLE DEATH". PESTICIDES TO KILL THEM ON CONTACT, HERBICIDES TO KILL THE MILKWEEDS. AND ABOUT THOSE HERBICIDES...AGENT ORANGE WAS AN HERBICIDE DEVELOPED BY MONSANTO...LOOK HOW MANY HUMANS THAT KILLED! WHAT'S KILLING BATS?BATS ARE NOT BIRDS, BUT WINGED MAMMALS, AS WE ALL KNOW.STILL, LIKE BIRDS, THEY ARE ALSO POLLINATORS OF MANY TYPES OF FRUITS IN AMERICA. THE SMITHSONIAN DID A LENGTHY ARTICLE ON A FUNGUS THAT RESEARCHERS SAY HAS DEVASTATED BAT POPULATIONS IN THE U.S., TAKING THEM TO THE POINT OF EXTINCTION.NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW PESTICIDES CAN ALSO BE KILLING BATS!
ON A PAGE OFFERED BY 'Wildlife Education - Information and Advice for the Safe Removal of Bats from Attics':

"Rat poison doesn’t work because bats eat flying insects, not pellets that are lying on the ground. You have the same problem if you attempt to use arsenic or another poison; the bats aren’t going to eat it. The only way to get the bats to ingest a poison would be to poison the insects they eat."

POISON THE INSECTS THEY EAT!YES, "WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME" IS KILLING BATS, NO DOUBT, BUT SO ARE PESTICIDES, BECAUSE FARMERS ARE SPRAYING CROPS TO KILL INSECTS AND BATS EAT TONS OF INSECTS!TONS OF POISONED INSECTS!IT'S ALARMING THAT OUR CHIEF POLLINATORS COULD ALL BE FACING EXTINCTION IF THESE MASS DIE-OFFS CONTINUE, BUT IF OUR BEE POLLINATORS BECOME EXTINCT, SO WILL WE HUMANS! OF THE MULTI-THOUSANDS OF EARTH'S BLOOMING PLANTS, ROUGHLY THREE-FOURTHS ARE POLLINATED BY BEES.THERE SIMPLY IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR BEE POLLINATORS.EVEN THE MEGA-FARMS HIRE BEEKEEPERS TO BRING THEIR HIVES TO THOSE THOUSANDS OF ACRES FIELDS JUST TO POLLINATE THEIR CROPS. ABOVE ALL ELSE, WE MUST SAVE THE BEES.TO DO THAT, PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES HAVE EITHER GOT TO CHANGE OR HAVE TO GO!

In 2014, a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology showed the link between herbicides and deaths in the nation's honeybee population. Not only was it proven that glyphosate (GLY), which is a primary ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, causes bees to loseelemental learning ability but their short-term memory retention decreased significantly compared to control groups.The study also demonstrated how bees brought pollen contaminated with GLY back to the hive, infecting all other bees. This leads to colony collapse.

A 55-year beekeeping veteran, writing for Mother Earth News magazine, speculated back in 2010 that Roundup is a primary cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD).
In his report, Terrence N. Ingram explained how, for years, he observed entire bee colonies collapsing almost immediately after nearby fields were sprayed with Roundup.
By the end of the spraying season, entire colonies were completely dead, something he repeatedly observed.

PESTICIDES ALSO PLAY A TERRIBLE ROLE IN BEE DEATHS

Researchers led by Chensheng Lu of Harvard University have pinpointed the collapse of honeybee colonies on a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids — insecticides that also act as nerve poisons and mimic the effects of nicotine. Scientists specifically looked at how low doses of two neonicotinoids — imidacloprid and clothianidin — affected healthy bee hives over the course of a winter.

The results of the study "reinforce the conclusion that sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids is likely the main culprit for the occurrence of CCD," the authors wrote in their paper, published May 9, 2014 in the Bulletin of Insectology.

As of 2014, a third of U.S. soybean acreage was planted with neonicotinoid treated seeds, usually imidacloprid or thiamethoxam.

Neonicotinoids made up 80% of all seed treatment sales in 2008.

Overall yield GAINS ARE NOT EXPECTED from neonicotinoid seed treatments for soybean insect pests in the United States, and foliar insecticides are recommended instead when insects do reach damaging levels.

[ANOTHER LIE EXPOSED! THE PESTICIDES DO NOT INCREASE CROP YIELDS!]

In March 2012, the Center for Food Safety, Pesticide Action Network, Beyond Pesticides and a group of beekeepers filed an Emergency Petition with the EPA asking the agency to suspend the use of clothianidin.

The agency denied the petition.

On July 12, 2013, Rep. John Conyers, on behalf of himself and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, introduced the "Save American Pollinators Act" in the House of Representatives.

The Act called for suspension of the use of four neonicotinoids, including the three recently suspended by the European Union, until their review is complete, and for a joint Interior Department and EPA study of bee populations and the possible reasons for their decline.

The bill was assigned to a congressional committee on July 16, 2013 and did not leave committee.

WHY?WHY, AT EVERY TURN, ARE THE BIG 6 ALLOWED TO CONTINUE DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN OUR ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING US?THE CONNECTION BETWEEN WALL STREET AND MANY MEMBERS OF OUR CROOKED CONGRESS, THAT'S WHY.THEY WON'T PASS MUCH THAT ADVERSELY AFFECTS SALES OF THOSE MEGA-CORPORATIONS WHO PUMP MILLIONS INTO THEIR CAMPAIGN CHESTS!

MEANWHILE, BACK IN EUROPE...

In 2012, the European Commission asked the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to study the safety of three neonicotinoids, in response to growing concerns about the impact of neonicotinoids on honey bees.
The study was published in January 2013, stating that neonicotinoids pose an unacceptably high risk to bees, and that the industry-sponsored science upon which regulatory agencies' claims of safety have relied may be flawed and contain data gaps not previously considered.

Their review concluded, "A high acute risk to honey bees was identified from exposure via dust drift for the seed treatment uses in maize, oilseed rape and cereals. A high acute risk was also identified from exposure via residues in nectar and/or pollen."

In April 2015 EASAC conducted a study of the potential effects on organisms providing a range of ecosystem services like pollination and natural pest control which are critical to sustainable agriculture.

The resulting report concludes "there is an increasing body of evidence that the widespread prophylactic use of neonicotinoids has severe negative effects on non-target organisms that provide ecosystem services including pollination and natural pest control."

The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight agrochemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite.

I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS POINTING YOU TO STUDIES REGARDING WHAT'S KILLING OUR MAJOR CROP POLLINATORS.
YOU'RE CERTAINLY ALL MORE THAN CAPABLE OF FINDING THOSE YOURSELVES.

I WOULD ASK THAT YOU THINK WITH ME ABOUT HOW THE DEATHS OF ESPECIALLY OUR BEES WOULD AFFECT US ALL ECONOMICALLY.

IF IT BECAME INCREASINGLY COSTLY TO POLLINATE THE MEGA-FARMS BY OTHER MEANS YET TO BE DEVELOPED, OUR MAJOR FOOD SUPPLIERS WOULD PASS ALONG THOSE EXTRA COSTS TO CONSUMERS.
IT WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR SMALLER FARMERS TO EXERT THE TIME AND ENERGY, SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY TO POLLINATE THEIR CROPS,

WOULDN'T FOOD PRICES SKYROCKET?
COULD WE AFFORD THEN THE FOODS WE TAKE FOR GRANTED NOW?

DON'T THE COMPANIES THAT MANUFACTURE THESE BEE-KILLERS REALIZE THAT?
I THINK THEY KNOW FULL WELL.

THE COMPANIES WHO SPEND BILLIONS ANNUALLY IN COURTS OF LAW ALL OVER THE GLOBE MAY BE SO CALLOUS THAT THEY JUST DON'T CARE, OR MAYBE THEY SEE MEGA-PROFITS ?
AFTER ALL, THEY ARE SO FINANCIALLY POWERFUL THAT THEY CAN FIELD HUNDREDS OF ATTORNEYS ON ANY GIVEN DAY TO COMBAT ALL WHO ARE AGAINST GMO/GM PRODUCTS!
SPENDING A FEW MILLION TO FIND A WAY TO POLLINATE THEIR GMO CROPS SHOULD OUR BEE POPULATION COMPLETELY FAIL WOULD BE NOTHING TO THEM!

HERE'S A SHORT LIST OF LAWSUITS THE GM CORPORATIONS ARE CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN. SOME ARE ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE.
A SEARCH FOR "GMO LAWSUITS" YIELDED THOUSANDS OF REFERENCES GOING BACK 20 YEARS OR MORE!
[CLICK ON EACH ONE TO SEE THE DETAILS]

According to PR Watch, Monsanto sued a number of dairies in the 1990s and 2000s for labeling milk free from recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), which they developed and marketed as Posilac.~ FIGHTING MANY CITIZENS IN COURT RIGHT NOW WHO CLAIM THEIR HEALTH HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY PRODUCTS LIKE 'ROUNDUP' (CAUSING NON-HODGKINS LYMPHOMA, ETC. THE LAWSUITS INVOLVING ROUNDUP ARE TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST!) AND 'LASSO' (THE LAWSUIT IN FRANCE RE: LASSO WAS WON!)

[NOTE: China found a genetic trait in Viptera, refused to accept further shipments. This caused a glut in the market and the price of corn fell by 85 percent in 2014. The National Grain and Feed Association has asked Syngenta to stop selling its GMO corn varieties.]

GMO WHEAT IS ONE OF THE FEW GMO PRODUCTS NOT APPROVED FOR PLANTING IN THE USA.

JAPAN ANNOUNCED IT WAS CONSIDERING HALTING PURCHASES OF PACIFIC 'WHITE' WHEAT BECAUSE OF THIS.

[NOTE: In 2006, a large portion of the American long-grain rice crop was found to be contaminated by an experimental strain from Bayer CropScience, prompting import bans in Europe and Japan. That incident led to sharply lowered market prices, and the company eventually agreed in 2011 to pay $750 million to farmers as compensation. ]

IT IS FACT, RATHER THAN "CONSPIRACY THEORY" ,THAT THESE GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS, WITH LONG-TERM EFFECTS ON HUMANS COMPLETELY UNTESTED BY PURELY INDEPENDENT STUDIES, AND GM PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES, FUNGICIDES, WITH QUESTIONABLE CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ADDITIVES, HAVE ALL COME FROM COMPANIES WHO WERE ABSOLUTELY LINKED TO NAZI GERMANY'S TOP EUGENICS SCIENTISTS AND EXPERTS.

WE SHOULD QUESTION THAT LINK, AND I DO.

WE SHOULD BEWARE OF THESE COMPANIES THAT HAVE BEEN CAUGHT TIME AND TIME AGAIN FLAGRANTLY VIOLATING THE LAWS INVOLVING FOOD SAFETY, HUMAN CONTAMINATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN SO MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD.

AND I AM WARY.

IF WE SIMPLY LOOK AT THE DATA COLLECTED THAT LINKS THE DEATH OF THE WORLD'S MAJOR POLLINATORS TO THE CROPS AND PRODUCTS OF THE "BIG 6" COMPANIES, WE CAN'T HELP BUT ASK...IS IT INTENTIONAL?

IF IT IS INTENTIONAL, WE HAVE ONLY TO LOOK AT THE U.S. WARNING BY HENRY KISSINGER AND OTHERS, BY THE GLOBALIST ELITES, WHO HAVE SAID THAT OVERPOPULATION OF THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES THREATENS THE "NATIONAL SECURITY" AND ECONOMIES OF THE RICHER NATIONS, AND LOOK AT THE RACIAL AND CULTURAL GENOCIDES THAT ARE BEING CARRIED OUT RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE GLOBE WITHOUT INTERFERENCE BY THE "SUPERPOWER" NATIONS, TO SEE WHY IT MIGHT BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY, TO TAKE SIDES WITH THE "BIG 6", "FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY".

REDUCE EARTH'S POPULATION AND THEREBY REDUCE THE STRAIN ON PROVIDING FOR THE MASSES.
[SEE BILL GATES QUOTE BELOW BLOG.]

CONTROL THE FOOD, CONTROL THE SOURCES OF PURE, UNCONTAMINATED WATER, AND YOU CONTROL THE WORLD ECONOMY...YOU CONTROL THE WORLD.

EVERY TIME ANYONE CHALLENGES THIS FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE, WE MAKE ONE MORE SMALL STEP TOWARD STOPPING THIS WORLDWIDE DOMINATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLIES AND CONTAMINATION OF OUR ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT, WATER, AIR, SOIL.

IF OUR POLLINATORS DIE OFF, WE WON'T BE FAR BEHIND.
IT BEHOOVES US TO HELP THEM SURVIVE, ANY WAY WE CAN, ANY WAY WE MUST.

A COMMON SIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE...PESTICIDE AND HERBICIDE SPRAYED OVER LARGE AREAS BY PLANES.... WHETHER DIRECTLY BELOW THIS CLOUD OF POISON OR DOWNWIND, EVERYTHING TOUCHED BY IT IS AFFECTED IN WAYS WE DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY YET.

WE AREN'T GIVEN NOTICE OF THESE SPRAYINGS, EVEN IF OUR HOMES ARE ADJACENT TO THE SPRAYED FIELDS.

GLOBAL 2000 REPORT ON A NEED FOR POPULATION REDUCTION
“…To cause by means of limited wars in the advanced countries, by means of starvation and diseases in the Third World countries, the death of three billion people by the year 2050, people they call “useless eaters”, ..The committee commissioned Cyrus Vance to write a paper on this subject of how to bring about such genocide.

This paper was produced under the title “Global 2000 Report” and was accepted and approved for action by former President James Earl Carter, and Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of State, for and on the behalf of the U.S. Government.
"Under the terms of the Global 2000 Report the population of the U.S. is to be reduced by 100 million by the year 2050." (Gerald O. Barney, The Global 2000 Report To The President, 1982)

# FURTHER READING, A VERY FEW OF THE MANY HUNDREDS OF "SCHOLARLY ARTICLES" ABOUT THE HARM CAUSED BY THE GM COMPANIES AND THEIR PRODUCTS, AND WORLDWIDE LITIGATION AGAINST THE "BIG 6".

"Gates continued: “I don’t think people like to say out loud that we want to let these kids die because there are too many of them. But by choosing not to get into health in our early days I was a victim of the myth around overpopulation. But there is just phenomenally good news here. The world’s population will peak. Now, we do have huge population growth in places where we don’t want it, like Yemen and Pakistan and parts of Africa, where we don’t have the resources to really help those people. So we need to get serious about figuring out how to make sure there’s relative health and satisfaction in those places...So I’m not saying fulfilling the development agenda makes the world all good. But in terms of injustice and equity, doubling down to finish the development agenda should be the top priority.”

"THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA"...REDUCING WORLD POPULATION, ESPECIALLY IN THIRD-WORLD NATIONS.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED THE UPDATE IN THE TEXT....2014-2015 COLONY COUNT IS JUST OUT: By — Associated Press May 13 "More than 2 out of 5 American honeybee colonies died in the past year — and, surprisingly, the worst die-off was in the summer, according to a new survey.

Since April 2014, beekeepers have lost 42.1 percent of their colonies, the second-highest loss rate in nine years, according to an annual survey conducted by a bee partnership that includes the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“What we’re seeing with this bee problem is just a loud signal that there’s some bad things happening with our agro ecosystems,” said study co-author Keith Delaplane at the University of Georgia. “We just happen to notice it with the honeybee because they are so easy to count.”

What shocked them is that this is the first time they’ve noticed bees dying more in summer than winter.

The scientists said mites, poor nutrition and pesticides are to blame for the bee deaths."